Two days after receiving a very difficult Awake Intubation Procedure, and after receiving good wishes from many for the successful surgery, Charm with his characteristic humor gave us insight into how tough he really was in describing his hospital experience (in his own words):

<<#163363 - 29/03/13 07:47 AM
Wow
Thanks everyone. It turns out I never could get to sleep until 4 pm yesterday after I got home after demanding to be discharged from the hospital. It was simply impossible to sleep in the hospital. I had doctors, nurses, the patient advocate, executives all coming almost every hour since there was also an incident before the surgery when at midnight, a "confused" patient who was wandering the halls and shouting for bacon and eggs for breakfast was being coddled by sympathetic nurses. He began to start going into and out of other patients rooms claiming they were all his rooms, that he had paid for the entire hospital and they all worked for him and they better not forget it. The nurses would chase after him but never restrained him. They caught up with him right outside my door before he came in. Since it turns out I was the one and only room he had not barged into, he became fixated on entering my room. He was truly crazy and deranged and at 1 am, he burst out of his room , right next to mine, and pushed open my door and rushed in.
What he did not know was that unlike all the other patients who had IVs and EKG leads and were unable to move out of the bed, I had demanded the night nurse remove my IV, take off my restraining compression leggings, and disconnect the EKG leads.
My story, and I am sticking to it, is that I politely and calmly pointed out the error of his ways and it was just a coincidence that all 6 foot two inches of him suddenly bounced out of the room and he landed sprawled in the corridor.
He started shouting he had a pistol in his room and he would get it and shoot me dead. At that point, I called security and they moved him off the floor. Again, I never touched him He just lost his balance. But boy did the hospital send in enough people to apologize and make sure I was okay.
True story. EricS can guess the oratorical approach I used.
so yes I was wired up beyond belief
Charm>>